Permanent way for railroads.



No. 7|0,6l7. Patented Oct. 7, |902. E. RUTTKUWSKI.

PERMANENTWAY FOB RAILBOADS. (Application fue'd Feb. 24, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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PERMANENT WAY FOR RAILROADS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 710,617,'dated October '7, 1902.

Application filed February 24, 1900. Serial No. 6,426. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMIL RUTTKowsKI, residing at Briesen, in the Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Permanent I/Vays, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in railway superstructures or permanent ways on which the sleepers are made of cement,with inserted iron anchors to which are secured the bearing-plates for the rails. For :protecting the cement sleepers against destruction caused by the heretofore-employed means of fastening the rails and to afford at the same time a swift-changing position of the rails the securing of the rails to their bearing-plates is made by hook-tappets inserted into the bearing-plates, wherebythe hooks of the bearingplate and the tappets are holding fast the lower flange or foot of the rails.

On the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents the cement sleepers with two rails in a vertical section. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same, Fig. 3 is the plan view of the bearing-plate on a larger scale. Fig. e is a crosssection of the same with the rail to be secured to the plate.

In the cement sleeper A is embedded the anchor or cramp B, made of iron and constructed in the manner that, at the place where the fastening-bolt E for the plate D is inserted in the sleeper, a socket O is formed. Into these sockets hollow tubes F are laid. Thus the whole iron structure forms a solid anchor for the cement sleeper. In the tubes E are inserted the bolts E for the plates D and secured above by screw-nuts G. The bearing-plates D are attached to the sleepers by the bolts E. The bearing-plate secures by its hook H the flange or foot of the rail I. At a certain distance from H a hole K is made in the plate, in which a beveled tap L of the hook-tappet M is adapted. The hookN ofthe tappet M also secures the foot of the rail. For changing the position of the rail the latter is canted, as shown by Fig. 4. One side of the lower flange of` therail is laid under the hook I-I, while at the other side the tappet M, with its hook N, is adapted. Now the rail is brought in the position as shown at Eig. 1. The tap L is adapted to the aperture K and the rail is rigidly secured between the hooks II and N. As will be seen from an examination of the drawings, as the pressure of the rail against the part M increases such rail will be more firmly secured and held in position by the action of the hook portion N of such part M. Thus an absolutely-secured fastening of the rails is obtained without hurting the cement sleeper by screws, bolts, or cramps.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is- In a railway, the combination with a tie of cement or like material, of an anchor extending longitudinally of the tie within the body of the same and provided adjacent to the ends with tubular portions at right angles to the main portion, a bearing-plate secured to the tie at either end by bolts passing through the plates and tubular portions of the anchors, a hook II on each of the bearing-plates for holding the inner edge of the rail-base against displacement; and a hook-tappet M having the hook N for engaging with the outer edge of the rail-base, fitting in a socket K in each of the bearing-plates, substantially as shown and described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

EMIL RUTTKOVVSKI, l/Vitnesses:

HENRY HASPER, WILLIAM MAYNER. 

